What does this phrase mean?

[mick]

busy as a one legged man at an ass kickin' contest.

 

[G'ginna]

Whatever you do, don't use the phrase "Rode hard and put away wet" around my aunt. She'll beat you for using inuendos in front of her.

Originally comes from riding horses, if you ride hard & get them all sweaty and put them in their stalls without cooling off they can get sick.

My grandpa uses some of those. It must be an older person thing. Here's some others I've heard him say for years.

4. "Never say cant. Cant never could."

5. "He's as useless as tits on a boar hog."

There's so many more I know I'm forgetting. I could tell Pappy stories forever.

1. Coulda, woulda, shoulda - never will, won't & never did. Which brings me to the one my mom always used, "Never say never, or you will be proven wrong."

2. I also heard that as teets on a bull. (same as Chris )

3. One of my Aunt's favorites was "It will never be noticed on a trotting horse."

4. Throwing the baby out with the bath water.

5. Like farting in a windstorm. (Susie O. had a comment along those lines sometime recently, didn't she?)

6. Let the fox guard the hen house.

7. Don't cry over spilt milk.

There are tons of them. I think I have forgotten a bunch, but they range from pretty tame to ummmmm... somewhat risque.

 

[Ted]

How about
"He's so dumb he couldn't pour piss out of a boot if the instructions were on the heel."

 

[G'ginna]

How about "dumb as a box of rocks?"

Or "a joker shy of a full deck."

Or "a brick short of a full load?"

 

[vegasnitro]

Who is Georginna Sams?

J/K ... Congrats and welcome back.

Here is another one from back in the day:

"I would rather drink gasoline and p!ss on a brush fire."

 

[Too many to list here]

"Busier than a one-armed paper hanger"

-with crabs!!!

An old guy I used to work with said this on occasion
"happier than a two peckered billy goat"

 

[G'ginna]

Who is Georginna Sams?

J/K ... Congrats and welcome back.

Here is another one from back in the day:

"I would rather drink gasoline and p!ss on a brush fire."

& Thank you.

more old ones...

"Don't squat with your spurs on."

"Easier than roping a cat."

"Try milking a bull."

 

[Stretch]

If yer brains where dyn-o-mite you wouldn't have enough to blow your nose.

 

[Nitrohaulic]

Poorer than a pick pocket in a nudist colony.

I'd rather run through hell with a gas can.

From those old Steptoe and Sons videos on youtube (which is what our Sanford and Son shows were copies of) "He really gets on your tits sometimes, doesn't he?"

YouTube - Steptoe Rides Again - Diana Dors Clip

 

[Tim5636sc]

Some of my favorites visiting the south thru the years....

Ol' boy's tough as whit leather.
He ran like a scalded dog.
So ugly she'd run a dog off a meat wagon.
Done gone and got yankee rich.
So poor he'd have to borrow moeny to buy water to cry with.
So dull he couldn't cut hot butter with a knife.
Crazier than a run over dog.
Tougher than a one eared alley cat.


of course, I'd hear these sayings, then hear Banjo's in the background...

 

[Toejam]

That would be something we would hear on "Sons of Anarchy", right Joe?

Huh? Did I hear Sons of Anarchy????

 

[Nitrohaulic]

"He grew up so poor that, if he hadn't been born a boy, he wouldn't have had anything to play with."

 

[Kelly]

One of my faves from Ma Green.....

I was cut out to be rich. I just wasn't sewn together properly.

 

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One of my faves from Ma Green.....

I was cut out to be rich. I just wasn't sewn together properly.

I saw her in Bakersfield on Sunday. Hanging out in the nitro pits.
Didn't want to interrupt her , she was talking with the teams and having fun.